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Emptiness/By A Freeway Allusion

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Alliteration is when there is a repetition of same first consonant sounds. It can be found in the following line of the song with repeating ds "In dreams until my death." This draws attention that the speaker longs to die. Allusion is reference to a person, place, event, or something of literary or political importance that is better known. The following lines are an allusion to the Bible "I was lost in the pages / Of a book full of death / Reading how we'll die alone." This helps bring light to what the speaker is focused on at the time. Imagery is when language is used to help provide a picture of what is being written. In this song, “On a cobweb afternoon / In a room full of emptiness / By a freeway” helps the reader imagine
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